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Nature 422, 249 (20 March 2003) | doi:10.1038/422249b

Alien-hunters get scope to search

John Whitfield

The most promising results from the SETI@home search for extraterrestrial life are to be followed up using the world's largest radio telescope.Since May 1999, SETI@home — run by the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, a non-profit organization — has divided radio signals from our Galaxy into quarter-megabyte chunks and sent them to the desktop computers of more than four million registered volunteers.